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(my) favorite films of 2009

Since everybody else is doing a list- here's mine 25.The Messenger-Oren Moverman- USA -Drama 24.Julie & Julia - Nora Ephron- USA- Comedy/Drama 23.Drag Me to Hell- Sam Raimi - USA- Horror 22.Food, Inc. -Robert Kenner- USA- Documentary 21.The Informant!- Stephen Soderbergh-USA - Comedy-Drama 20.In the Loop-Armando Iannucci-UK- Comedy 19. Sin Nombre-Cary Joji Fukunaga- Mexico- Drama/Crime 18. Coraline - Henry Selick- USA- Animated 17.The Hangover- Todd Phillips - USA- Comedy 16.District 9 -Neill Blomkamp - New Zealand/USA - Sci-Fi/Drama 15.Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces) -Pedro Almodóvar- Spain - Drama/Romance 14.Zombieland- Ruben Fleischer-USA- Action/Comedy/Horror 13.(500) Days of Summer-Marc Webb-USA -Romance-Comedy 12.Un prophète-Jacques Audiard-France- Crime/Drama 11.Avatar- James Cameron- USA- Sci-Fi 10.Up in the Air- Jason Reitman-USA -Comedy/Drama 9.An Education- Lone Scherfig -UK- Drama 8.The Lovely Bones - Peter Jackson - New Zealand/USA/UK- Crime/Drama/Fantasy 7.A

best Movies in french of the 21st century

30. Le Pacte des loups( Brotherhood of the Wolf )-2001-Christophe Gans -France 29 . Bon Voyage -2003- Jean-Paul Rappeneau- France 28.La graine et le mulet (the Secret of The Grain) -2007-Abdellatif Kechiche- France/Tunisia 27.8 femmes(8 Women) -2002-Francois Ozon-France 26.Maelstrom-2000-Denis Villeneuve -Canada 25.Rachida -2002-Yamina Bachir -Algeria 24.Paris Je T'aime- 2006- Various- France 23.Inch'Allah Dimanche -2001-Yamina Benguigu- Algeria 22. Je rentre à la maison (I'm Going Home)-2001- Manoel de Oliveira- France/Portugal 21.Un long dimanche de fiancailles( A Very Long Engagement) - 2004-Jean-Pierre Jeunet-France/USA 20.. Le Fils ( The Son)- 2002- Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne-Belgium 19. De battre mon cœur s'est arrete(The Beat that My Heart Skipped) - 2005-Jacques Audiard-France 18.La Mome (La Vie en Rose)- 2007-Olivier Dahan - France/UK 17.Joyeux Noel-2005-Christian Carion- France 16.Rois et reine ( Kings and Queen) -2004-Arnaud Desplechin -France 15.

best 20th century movies in spanish

19.Nueve reinas (nine Queens) - Fabián Bielinsky - 2000- Argentina 18. Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucia) - Julio Medem - 2001- Spain 17.Plata quemada ( Burnt Money) -Marcelo Pineyro - 2000 - Argentina/Spain/France/Uraguay 16.Kamchatka - Marcelo Pineyro - 2002 - Argentina/Spain 15. Rudo y Cursi (Rude and Vulgar) - Carlos Cuaron -2008 - Mexico 14.Taxi para tres ( A Cab for Three) - Orlando Lubbert-2001 - Chile 13.La niña santa ( The Holy Girl) - Lucrecia Martel - 2004 - Argentina/Spain /Italy 12. Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces) - Pedro Almodovar - 2009- Spain 11.Los Lunes al Sol(Mondays in the Sun ) - Fernando León de Aranoa - 2002-Spain 10.El crimen del padre Amaro (The Crime of Padre Amaro) - Carlos Carrera - 2002- Mexico 9.La Mala Educacion (Bad Education - Pedro Almodovar - 2004- Spain 8. Mar adentro (The Sea Inside) - Alejandro Amenabar- 2004- Spain 7. El Laberinto del Fauno ( Pan's Labryinth) - Guillermo del Toro - 2006- Mexico 6.Volver -Pedro Almodovar - 2006- Spain 5.Marí

a list about winners of the national book award

The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award" The purpose of the awards is "to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. It's more or lesson the American version of the Booker Prize. This list takes into account the fiction category only.Quick two line summaries as usual.Haven't read any of the winners after 1985, so knowledge of this subject is not as good. 9.The World According to Garp - John Irving- Won in 1980 why read it: A comedy , which is all the more surprising considering the dark elements of the story. Major plot elements and themes center on feminism and sexuality, with large parts of the